UPGRADE AND OPERATION OF THE BNL TANDEMS FOR RHIC INJECTION.

Conference · Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2001

OSTI ID:783984

STESKI, D B; ALESSI, J; BENJAMIN, J; CARLSON, C; MANNI, M; THIEBERGER, P; WIPLICH, M

One of the tandem Van de Graaffs (MP7) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has successfully completed its first year as an injector for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The tandem provided pulsed beam of Au{sup +32} (peak intensity 80 e{mu}A, 500{micro}s) with only 17 hours of downtime during a 5 month run. Improvements are being made to further increase the intensity of the gold beam for the experimental run starting in 2001. A second tandem Van de Graaff (MP6) has been extensively upgraded and can now reach a terminal voltage of over 14MV. A beamline has been constructed to transport the MP6 beam around MP7 and then connect to the existing MP7 beamlines. This has allowed MP6 to deliver beam to local target rooms for an outside user program, while MP7 has simultaneously injected RHIC. MP6 can also be used as an injector for RHIC.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 783984
• Report Number(s): BNL-68415; KA0201; R&D Project: AD002ADOP; KA0201; TRN: US0104127
• Resource Relation: Conference: PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE 2001, CHICAGO, IL (US), 06/18/2001--06/22/2001; Other Information: PBD: 18 Jun 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
GOLD IONS
HEAVY IONS
ION BEAMS
BEAM TRANSPORT
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
BEAM INJECTION
VAN DE GRAAFF ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATOR FACILITIES